Revolting Subjects

Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain

Imogen Tyler (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-36076-1 (ISBN)

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Revolting Subjects is a groundbreaking account of social abjection in contemporary Britain, exploring how particular groups of people are figured as revolting and how they in turn revolt against their abject subjectification. The book utilizes a number of high-profile and in-depth case studies - including 'chavs', asylum seekers, Gypsies and Travellers, and the 2011 London riots - to examine the ways in which individuals negotiate restrictive neoliberal ideologies of selfhood. In doing so, Tyler argues for a deeper psychosocial understanding of the role of representational forms in producing marginality, social exclusion and injustice, whilst also detailing how stigmatization and scapegoating are resisted through a variety of aesthetic and political strategies.

Imaginative and original, Revolting Subjects introduces a range of new insights into neoliberal societies, and will be essential reading for those concerned about widening inequalities, growing social unrest and social justice in the wider global context.

Imogen Tyler is a senior lecturer in sociology and co-director of the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies at Lancaster University. She specializes in the area of marginal social identities, a topic which brings together research on asylum and migration, borders, sexual politics, motherhood, race and ethnicity, disability, social class and poverty. Her work focuses on representation and mediation and the relationship between social theory and activism. Other recent publications include a special issue of Feminist Review (with C. Gatrell) on the theme of 'Birth', a special issue of Studies in the Maternal (with T. Jensen) on the theme of 'Austerity Parenting', a special issue of Citizenship Studies on the theme of `Immigrant Protest` (2013) and a book (with K. Marciniak), Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent (2014).

Introduction: revolting subjects
1. Social abjection
2. The abject politics of British citizenship
3. The asylum invasion complex
4. Naked protest: maternal politics and the feminist commons
5. The Big Society: eviction and occupation
6. Britain and its poor
7. The kids are revolting
Afterword

Erscheinungsdatum	18.01.2024
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-350-36076-7 / 1350360767
ISBN-13	978-1-350-36076-1 / 9781350360761
Zustand	Neuware